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Comment Re:UC, Berkley should've patented ideas in BSD Uni (Score 1) 167

by fotoguzzi (#42404797) Attached to: Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents
Is this statement in any way related to CMU's Mach kernel used by Apple for OS X? That is, maybe the poster is musing that if the BSDs were not BSD-licensed, CMU could not have made Mach, and the only Apples in existence would be Mac OS 9 computers in museums?

But wouldn't a better post be along the lines of: what if CMU could somehow renege on the Mach kernel? Where would Apple be, then?

Submission + - Solo para Adultos Como Hacerle el amor a un hombre (youtube.com)

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Submission + - 2012 another record-setter, fits climate forecasts (foxnews.com) 1

Submitted by Layzej
Layzej writes: Fox News reports: In 2012 many of the warnings scientists have made about global warming went from dry studies in scientific journals to real-life video played before our eyes. As 2012 began, winter in the U.S. went AWOL. Spring and summer arrived early with wildfires, blistering heat and drought. And fall hit the eastern third of the country with the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy. Globally, five countries this year set heat records, but none set cold records. 2012 is on track to be the warmest year on record in the United States. Worldwide, the average through November suggests it will be the eighth warmest since global record-keeping began in 1880 and will likely beat 2011 as the hottest La Nina year on record. America's heartland lurched from one extreme to the other without stopping at "normal." Historic flooding in 2011 gave way to devastating drought in 2012. But the most troubling climate development this year was the melting at the top of the world. Summer sea ice in the Arctic shrank to 18 percent below the previous record low.
These are "clearly not freak events," but "systemic changes," said climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute in Germany. "With all the extremes that, really, every year in the last 10 years have struck different parts of the globe, more and more people absolutely realize that climate change is here and already hitting us."
Programming

Submission + - Roll-Your-Own Dev Projects To Avoid (infoworld.com)

Submitted by snydeq
snydeq writes: Andrew C. Oliver warns that rolling your own code can often be a waste of time and money. 'Many developers like to create software from scratch, even when there's perfectly good reusable code from other projects, open source, or even commercial products available to do the job. ... Whatever the reason, rolling your own code can be a waste of time and effort, as well as an opportunity for bugs to creep in — after all, new code is more likely to have bugs than existing code that's been reviewed and tested,' Oliver writes, offering a look at nine types of software projects that really shouldn't be roll-your-own efforts.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Do coding standards make a difference? 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Every shop I've ever worked in has had a "Coding Style" document that dictates things like camelCase vs underscored_names, placement of curly braces, tabs vs spaces, etc... As a result, I've lost hundreds of hours in code reviews because some pedant was more interested in picking nits over whitespace than actually reviewing my algorithms. Are there any documents or studies that show a net productivity gain for having these sorts of standards? If not, why do we have them? We live in the future, why don't our tools enforce these standards automagically?

Submission + - Atmospheric Vortex Engine creates tornadoes to generate electricity (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Tornadoes generally evoke the destructive force of nature at its most awesome. However, what if all that power could be harnessed to produce cheaper and more efficient electricity? This is just what Canadian engineer Louis Michaud proposes to achieve, with an invention dubbed the âoeAtmospheric Vortex Engineâ (or AVE) — is this possible for real ?
The Military

Submission + - DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "If robots are ever really going to carry the equipment of US soldiers and Marines, they're going to have to act more like pack animals. Now Terri Moon Cronk reports that DARPA’s semiautonomous Legged Squad Support System — also known as the LS3 — will carry 400 pounds of warfighter equipment and walk 20 miles at a time also acting as an auxiliary power source for troops to recharge batteries for radios and handheld devices while on patrol. “It’s about solving a real military problem: the incredible load of equipment our soldiers and Marines carry in Afghanistan today,” says Army Lt. Col. Joseph K. Hitt, program manager in DARPA’s tactical technology office. The robot’s sensors allow it to navigate around obstacles at night, maneuver in urban settings, respond to voice commands, and gauge distances and directions. The LS3 can also distinguish different forms of vegetation when walking through fields and around bushes and avoid logs and rocks with intelligent foot placement on rough terrain (video). The robot's squad leader can issue 10 basic commands to tell the robot to do such things as stop, sit, follow him tightly, follow him on the corridor, and go to specific coordinates. Darpa figures that it's illogical to make a soldier hand over her rucksack to a robotic beast of burden if she's then got to be preoccupied with "joysticks and computer screens" to guide it forward. "That adds to the cognitive burden of the soldier," Hitt explains. "We need to make sure that the robot also is smart, like a trained animal.""
Facebook

Submission + - How Facebook Gave Walmart A Mobile Ad Monopoly On Thanksgiving (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: If you were wondering why you only saw ads for Walmart on Facebook's mobile app over the Black Friday weekend, here's the answer: Walmart pre-purchased a "road block" of 50 million Facebook mobile ads on the day after Thanksgiving, forcing other advertisers off a portion of the network for a period, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Privacy

Submission + - Government to spy on computers of the jobless (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Jobseekers will be offered the chance to look for work through the new Universal Jobmatch website, which automatically pairs them up with opportunities that suit their skills after scanning their CVs.

It will also allow employers to search for new workers among the unemployed and send messages inviting them to interviews.

However, their activities may also be tracked using devices known as "cookies", so their Job Centre advisers know how many searches they have been doing and whether they are turning down viable opportunities.

Iain Duncan-Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said the scheme would "revolutionise" the process of looking for work.

He said anyone without a job after signing up to the scheme would be lacking "imagination".

Submission + - Linking to radio streams without license is not permitted (tweakers.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Dutch Judge rules that linking and embedding of radio streams without a license is forbidden in the Netherlands. This was the outcome of a court ruling in The Hague, in a lawsuit of Buma/Stemra against the administrator of Nederland.fm and Op.fm.
Hardware

Submission + - Cree releases landmark 200 lumen-per-watt LED (extremetech.com)

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MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "One of the ways — if not the best way — to track the progress of LEDs over the past few years has been through the metric of lumens-per-watt. As you can gather from the name this is an efficiency rating that is based on the amount of visible light emitted relative to the amount of power consumed. A lumens-per-watt (lpw) rating is especially interesting because it works regardless of the light source — the lpw rating for an incandescent bulb is a lowly 15 (or so) while newer LED bulbs are in the range of 75. While 75 lpw is plenty efficient, it’s no where near what manufacturers like Cree are working on. In fact, the company has just put out a 200 lpw LED known as the XLamp MK-R."

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